Halo Reach leaked shots! (spoilers?)

**Warsaw** · November 23rd, 2009 06:46 PM

Originally Posted by =sw=warlord

Kornman i seem to remember reading somewhere that technology tends to speed up in war's not slow down, look at the manhattan project for instance, if we hadn't been in such a desparate need to end the war soon we wouldn't have even looked into nuclear weapons.
Many modern technology used these days were made during war time.

Advances speed up in areas that need them. For a service rifle, you aren't going to ditch your entire setup for a new gun when your current one works just fine for killing your enemy. Case in point, the Lee-Enfield; the Brits intended to replace it with a new rifle just before the First World War, but because they entered the war (

), they couldn't do that. They needed to equip their men right then and there.

**=sw=warlord** · November 23rd, 2009 07:01 PM

Originally Posted by Warsaw

Advances speed up in areas that need them. For a service rifle, you aren't going to ditch your entire setup for a new gun when your current one works just fine for killing your enemy. Case in point, the Lee-Enfield; the Brits intended to replace it with a new rifle just before the First World War, but because they entered the war (

), they couldn't do that. They needed to equip their men right then and there.

20 year's is a long stretch by anyones imagination.
And im pretty sure by the point of reach their going to be desparate and so will have long implemented the prototypes, even if its because they've run out of resources to keep repopulating old ammunition.

**Kornman00** · November 24th, 2009 10:37 AM

Originally Posted by Heathen

I doubt the writers had the ideas of wartime economy in their heads when writing this

You underestimate the Bungie writers

Many modern technology used these days were made during war time.

However, there is nothing really "unmodern" about the weapons seen in Halo 1. The BR didn't really had anything new to the mix except a different kind of fire power.

Also, the military sometimes doesn't have the right mind where it puts its money. Example? In the middle of two fucking over buget wars, the Army (not sure about other branches) changed its Class A uniform (the formal uniform, used for funerals and shit). That shit is in no way cheap to produce or buy. What was wrong with the old one? Nothing that required it to be changed right now.